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This is a short one….I was quite impressed by the article on browser compability: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/browser-compatibility-what-really-matters. Funnily enough, I was thinking about it when I came across the new social media site to be – Baagz.com in Mashable earlier tod...
Congratulations SEOmoz Team on all of your big news the past week! To celebrate these bold moves into the future and the SEOmoz Seminar I am hosting a gathering at the ...
Last week, the New York Times opened up their 13 million document archive and dropped their Times Select program (which allowed access in exchange for a fee). This move was covered extensively in the blogosphere and even influenced other giants in the online publishi...
We're now one full week on from the results of the SEOmoz "Landing Page Contest," and I've printed out all of your comments... sat down... read through them twice... I've highlighted, I've underlined, and I've thought very carefully.The result? I've decided I'm going to write a couple of posts for "YouMoz" (this is the first).Before I get started, I ...
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Since I have been working at "place company name here", specialising in search marketing I have been constantly in battle against the web developers. (still a newbie, I am mostly a web designer needing to learn about SEO, so i got a job in online marketing)For two years the website has been in development and since I joined the company 5 months ago, we are still unable to do th...
When google does something new, or even if there are rumours of google introducing something new, I get this weird mixture of goose pimples and butterflies in the stomach. And those who know me, know how addicted I am to all things facebook – I would love for it to be an all encompassing application – in fact I think facebook should have its own unique browser &n...
PPC is more complicated than it was a few years ago because the ad platforms – Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN AdCenter, and others – have become more adept at price discrimination. They are better at charging their customers - the advertisers - what the customers are willing to pay. Customers often resent price discrimination but businesses employ it to incr...
Let me just preface this post by saying that I hate management books and business theory books and nearly everything that starts with the phrase "The Seven Habits of Highly..." That said, I got so many recommendations to read Jim Collins' book, Good to Great, that I couldn't resist. In particular, two p...
Earlier this week I was in Las Vegas to attend and speak at the Shop.org Summit. While I was there I attended the "Web 2.0: Advanced Level" session. After some severe sound issues (think microphones cutting out and constant screechingly loud feedback) and my astonishment at how much wifi costs in the convention ce...
A little while ago the Google Ad Words team released a new tool designed to help advertisers create ad texts. If you are running a PPC campaign, the tool can be found by accessing the campaign management tab, clicking on tools and then clicking on “Ad Text Ideas (beta) at the bottom of the screen. The tool is broken into 4 steps Step 1 – The tool asks...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.internetJust came across an interesting article in the Guardian about a browser plugin that erases advertisements from web pages (even adsense). I am now thinking what happens when a model of advertising does not work and what ways agencies will think of to build brands & advertise online. If...
If you’re a newly self-employed SEM/SEO, you’ve certainly got several things on your plate right now: link building for your clients, promoting your own website and blog, worrying that your paid links are now going to get you blacklisted by Google, etc. Well, if you haven’t thought of it yet, there’s one more thing for you to worry about: Taxes. Now that...
This week on Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks about the "war" that happens in the spam game. He discusses how Google looks at link manipulation, how spammers combat this, and how should webmasters should consider a link to be white hat. ...
I admit it - I struggle to understand patent applications (one of the big reasons that Si is part of our staff). However, Bill Slawski doesn't and it's made our collective lives in the SEO world (and the mozplex) considerably easier. Take, for example his two incredibly fascinating posts collecting patent applications and speculating on how the engines m...